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Mari Mäkiö: TWO CAMERA EYES ARE WATCHING

Mari Mäkiö: TWO CAMERA EYES ARE WATCHING

Jun

23

Sun

03:01 – 03:01

4–5°C

broken clouds

23.6. — 14.7.2024

The exhibition Two camera eyes are watching focuses on a gaze between a human and an octopus and the encounter that happens through this gaze. The name of the exhibition refers to the similar eyes of these two distant relatives, eyes which are a result of two different evolutionary paths. The work invites the viewer to become the subject of the animals gaze and ponders what kind of thoughts this can provoke: Do we encounter the other animal as an individual or as a representative of their species? What kind of power relation is connected to the act of looking or to the language that we use when we talk about other animals? How are the face and eyes connected to the ways that we feel empathy?

The installation consists of video projections, a soundscape and an essay which the viewer can listen to with headphones or alternatively can be read in leaflet form.

The video material has been filmed in southern Australia in the natural habitat of the octopuses and the footage is filmed by underwater videographer Dean Spraakman. The videos are edited by Niklas Kullströmand the soundscape is made by sound designer Jyri Pirinen together with the artist. The essay is read by Freja Bäckman and the sound design is by Saku Kämäräinen.

Mari Mäkiö (b. 1982) is an artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She works mainly with installation, combining different media, from sound and video to ceramics and prints. An important part of her process is creating the artwork together with other artists as well as people outside of the cultural field. Recently Mäkiö has studied encounters between humans and other animals, and the experiences of separateness, togetherness and empathy entwined within these encounters. In her works, she also contemplates human beings as a species among others in the context of evolutionary biology and history. Mäkiö’s works have been shown in museums and galleries in Finland and abroad. In 2015 she graduated with a Master of Arts in Photography at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland.

Sun 23 Jun 2024 – 14 Jul 2024 Closed today

4–5°C

broken clouds

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